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Resetting foreign economic relations : Part I

The 2021 National Security Policy has made geo-economics its main pivot. It is therefore essential to look in a coherent and comprehensive manner how Pakistan’s economic relations with other nations…

Our geo-economic dream

Geo-economics is the new buzzword these days, thrown around rather loosely without quantifying its benefits, especially in a country like Pakistan which relies on a heavy diet of geopolitics and…

National economic interest

National interest is the “interest of a nation as a whole held to be an independent entity separate from the interests of subordinate areas or groups and also of other…

Geo-economic strategic depth

Pakistan’s new narrative of geo-economics is facing the most crucial question: how to tackle geopolitics in the best possible way while keeping in view its geographical location. The country’s neighbour…

A geoeconomics-led Indo-Pak détente?

Unless we remove our economy from the bottle in which we had managed to thrust it as we tried to cope with the harsh realities of independence surrounded by a…

A test of our economic diplomacy

China Pakistan Economic Corridor is essential part of OBOR and serves as a showcase given best relations enjoyed by two countries. Funding of 62B$ is by far the highest for…

A new economic war

The G-7 Summit in Cornwall (UK) from June 11-13, 2021 was the first big step towards possible economic confrontation and cold war with China, although there have been some strong…

Financial inclusion and women’s integration

Mao Zedong proclaimed that ‘women hold up half the sky’ but he forgot to recognize that we still live in a man’s world. Women’s empowerment through access to finance, jobs,…